Turnip lantern - take the largest turnip you can buy, cut off a slice so you can get at the inside and chop out the flesh as close to the skin as possible - make the inevetable gashes into eyes, nose and grinning mouth, pierce two small holes to take a string then place a stub of candle inside, ignite it through the nose hole, replace the original slice as a lid and then try to ignore the smell of charring turnip as it hangs by the string from some convenient suport.

Turnips are quite hard and the carving out is not easy nor quick.

The supermarkets set out pumpkins and Halloween tat these days and try to make a big thing of it, but it is only in the last four or five years that we have had anyone come to the door 'trick or treating'. They have battery powered orange plastic pumpkin shaped lights these days.

Anne the Pleater :ootd: